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Recommended for college-level students of Catholic history.......2001-02-21
The hefty price tag of this history may keep it from all but the most specialized Catholic library collections, but it continues the coverage of Vatican II begun in previous volumes, with this covering the mature council, second period and intersession from September 1963-1964 - a period in which the Vatican II began to assume its character. From the debate of collegiality to the Council's completion of the first two documents, chapters cover its revision of major texts and its political involvements. Recommended for college-level students of Catholic history.
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Fuzzy Modeling and Genetic Algorithms for Data Mining and Exploration is a handbook for analysts, engineers, and managers involved in developing data mining models in business and government. As youll discover, fuzzy systems are extraordinarily valuable tools for representing and manipulating all kinds of data, and genetic algorithms and evolutionary programming techniques drawn from biology provide the most effective means for designing and tuning these systems.
You dont need a background in fuzzy modeling or genetic algorithms to benefit, for this book provides it, along with detailed instruction in methods that you can immediately put to work in your own projects. The author provides many diverse examples and also an extended example in which evolutionary strategies are used to create a complex scheduling system.
* Written to provide analysts, engineers, and managers with the background and specific instruction needed to develop and implement more effective data mining systems.
* Helps you to understand the trade-offs implicit in various models and model architectures.
* Provides extensive coverage of fuzzy SQL querying, fuzzy clustering, and fuzzy rule induction.
* Lays out a roadmap for exploring data, selecting model system measures, organizing adaptive feedback loops, selecting a model configuration, implementing a working model, and validating the final model.
* In an extended example, applies evolutionary programming techniques to solve a complicated scheduling problem.
* Presents examples in C, C++, Java, and easy-to-understand pseudo-code.
* Extensive online component, including sample code and a complete data mining workbench.
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nice match of fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms.......2005-10-16
Cox explains fuzzy modelling at a level that should be readily understandable to many readers. The math ideas are given, but you are not overwhelmed with page after page of formulae. Enough maths is developed to use against data and to produce sensible results.
A good feature of the book is how to apply fuzzy logic against data in a SQL database. Other books on fuzzy logic often ignore this important practical case.
Cluster is decently covered. This is a field where often what is a cluster can be very subjective. Which makes it well suited for a fuzzy approach.
The book also shows a very natural fit between fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms. The probing nature of the latter, where you really don't know what the "proper" answer should be, means that using a fuzzy match as a step within the genetic searching can be a fruitful implementation.
One of the Worst Books Ever -- Deserves Negative Stars.......2005-09-22
Both the author and publisher should be ashamed of releasing this book, and having the gall to charge $50 for it. Let me list some of the ways this book is a rip-off:
1) It was never proof-read or copy edited. There are typographic errors, misspellings, and missing words in the middle of sentences.
2) One chapter (I'll let you find it) skips a number in the figure sequence.
3) Variable names in the text differ from those in the referenced figure.
4) Code fragments in several languages are useless other than to boost the author's ego: look how many computer languages I can use!
5) The examples are all over the map; there's no consistency. Worst of all, however, is that the entire third part of the book (the Genetic Algorithms included in the title) focuses on a crew scheduling algorithm and never shows how that relates to data mining or anything else that preceeded it in the first two parts.
The book looks (and reads) like it was thrown together overnight from previously written materials and no one took the time to make sure it was done correctly. It must have been a stream-of-consciousness core dump without any thoughtful review to see if all parts were necessary, complete, and fit together to make a whole story.
They should pay the reader to take it out of inventory. It is unfortunate that the book is so poor as to be useless, I'm sure that others are as disappointed as I am.
4 stars for theory, but 3 stars for actual implementation details.......2005-09-12
4 stars for theory, but 3 stars for actual implementation details
This book is a great introduction into Fuzzy Logic, Rules, Sets, and Modeling. The author doesn't assume the reader already has a Masters degree in Comp Sci or Software Eng, and gives good explanations of all the requisite knowledge needed to understand the basics of Fuzzy stuff. For this I gave the author 4 stars.
But, there is very little implementation details in this book. Its mostly theory with a smattering of code here and there. That's where it falls short of invaluable. If the author has made the book a hundred or two more pages longer and went into in depth implementation details this book would have been an easy 5 stars, coving the basics all the way through real world usage and implementation.
As it is, its just a good masters level text book. A good supplemental theory text to read prior to another book that shows more implementation details (which I haven't found yet).
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Genetic Fuzzy Systems: Evolutionary Tuning and Learning of Fuzzy Knowledge Bases (Advances in Fuzzy Systems - Applications & Theory)
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A major source on genetic fuzzy systems.......2001-09-27
The volume brings an outstanding presentation of the major issues, ideas, concepts and algorithms to design and develop fuzzy systems using gentic algorithms. A field of major relevance for researchers and practioners, genetic fuzzy systems provides a major methodological substract of significant impact in practice. The book is unique in its contents and presentation. Chapters begin with the key concepts and smoothly grows to advanced concepts in a clear and very understandable and motivating way. The material mirrors the state of the art in the area of genetic fuzzy systems and contains the most recent results available until its publication. Written by renowned, internationally recognized researchers, the book is mandatory to all who are interested in the field of computational intelligence, its foundations and applications.
Summary of contents by the author.......2001-09-19
In recent years, a great number of publications have explored the use of genetic algorithms as a tool for designing fuzzy
systems. Genetic Fuzzy Systems explores and discusses this symbiosis of evolutionary computation and fuzzy logic. The book summarizes and analyzes the novel field of genetic fuzzy systems, paying special attention to genetic algorithms that adapt and learn
the knowledge base of a fuzzy-rule-based system. It introduces the general concepts, foundations and design principles of genetic fuzzy
systems and covers the topic of genetic tuning of fuzzy systems. It also introduces the three fundamental approaches to genetic learning
processes in fuzzy systems: the Michigan, Pittsburgh and Iterative-learning methods. Finally, it explores hybrid genetic fuzzy systems such as
genetic fuzzy clustering or genetic neuro-fuzzy systems and describes a number of applications from different areas. Genetic Fuzzy System represents a comprehensive treatise on the design of the fuzzy-rule-based systems using genetic algorithms, both from
a theoretical and a practical perspective. It is a valuable compendium for scientists and engineers concerned with research and applications in
the domain of fuzzy systems and genetic algorithms.
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Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 7th International Conference, CICLing 2006, Mexico City, Mexico... (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, CICLing 2006, held in Mexico City, Mexico, in February 2006.
The 43 revised full papers and 16 revised short papers presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 176 submissions. The papers are structured into two parts and organized beyond in topical sections on computational linguistics research: lexical resources, corpus-based knowledge acquisition, morphology and part-of-speech tagging, syntax and parsing, word sense disambiguation and anaphora resolution, semantics, text generation, natural language interfaces and speech processing; and intelligent text processing applications: information retrieval, question answering, text summarization, information extraction and text mining, text classification, as well as authoring tools and spelling correction.
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The LNCS Journal on Data Semantics is devoted to the presentation of notable work that, in one way or another, addresses research and development on issues related to data semantics. Based on the highly visible publication platform Lecture Notes in Computer Science, this new journal is widely disseminated and available worldwide.
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The LNCS Journal on Data Semantics is devoted to the presentation of notable work that, in one way or another, addresses research and development on issues related to data semantics. Based on the highly visible publication platform Lecture Notes in Computer Science, this new journal is widely disseminated and available worldwide.
The scope of the journal ranges from theories supporting the formal definition of semantic content to innovative domain-specific applications of semantic knowledge. The journal addresses researchers and advanced practitioners working on the semantic web, interoperability, mobile information services, data warehousing, knowledge representation and reasoning, conceptual database modeling, ontologies, and artificial intelligence.
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Active Mining: Second International Workshop, AM 2003, Maebashi, Japan, October 28, 2003, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence)
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the Second International Workshop on Active Mining, AM 2003, held in Maebashi, Japan, in October 2003 as a satellite workshop of ISMIS 2003. The 16 revised full papers presented together with 2 tutorial papers and an overview of the Japanese Active Mining Project went through 2 rounds of reviewing and improvement and were selected from initialy 38 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on active information collection, active data mining, and active user reaction. Many current aspects of active mining are addressed, ranging from theoretical and methodological topics to algorithms and their applications in fields such as bioinformatics, medicine, and life science more generally.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods, TABLEAUX 2007, held in Aix en Provence, France in July 2007.
The 14 revised research papers presented together with 2 system descriptions as well as 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. The papers cover many topics in the wide range of logics; from intuitionistic and substructural logics to modal logics (including temporal and dynamic logics), from many-valued logics to nonmonotonic logics, from classical first-order logic to description logics. Some contributions are focused on decision procedures, others on efficient reasoning, as well as on implementation of theorem provers. A few papers explore applications such as model-checking, verification, or knowledge engineering. Finally some contributions make use of tableaux as a tool for theoretical investigation of logics.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2007, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in November 2007.
The 37 revised full papers presented together with 3 keynote lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 167 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on data warehousing and data mining, design methodologies and tools, information and database integration, information modelling concepts and ontologies, integrity constraints, logical foundations of conceptual modelling, patterns and conceptual meta-modelling, requirements elicitation, reuse and reengineering, semi-structured data and XML, as well as Web information systems and XML.
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Conceptual Structures: Broadening the Base (Lecture Notes Series)
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2001, held in Stanford, CA, USA in July/August 2001.The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the proceedings. The book offers topical sections on language and knowledge structures, logical and mathematical foundations of conceptual structures, conceptual structures for data and knowledge bases, conceptual structures and meta-data, and algorithms and systems.
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Database Machines and Knowledge Base Machines (The International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)
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